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Orofacial Pain Specialist Exposes the $11 Billion Secret the Migraine Industry Doesn't Want You to Know...
An orofacial pain specialist and the brother-in-law who watched a 41-year-old man lose 5 years to "cervicogenic headaches" exposes the drug industry's 'Triptan-First Playbook' and the quiet fix that ended Wednesday afternoons spent with his jaw locked behind his face (no pills, no $700 night guards, no masseter Botox)
Thu. Nov. 20th, 2025 | 9:09 am EST - 211.842 👁
Written by Dr. Wade Brenner, DDS, DABOP, Orofacial Pain & Headache Specialist | Peer-Reviewed by the Journal of Orofacial Pain & Headache

WARNING: This page comes down in 72 hours. After that the drug companies win and you keep grinding your jaw to pennies in the dark.

 

I am about to make every neurologist, vein-of-the-industry pain clinic and pill rep in this country furious.

 

Because what I am about to put in writing could cost them millions in refills this year alone.

 

And I do not care anymore.

 

I spent 31 years inside this field. I sat on the panels. I knew the playbook.

 

Then I watched my brother-in-law Daniel lose 5 years of his life to it.

 

41 years old. A daughter who started saying "dad's got a headache again" in the voice you use for a dog that's getting old.

 

I watched a hygienist figure out in 9 minutes what 4 doctors missed in 5 years.

 

I watched him hide pills behind a stapler so the men on his team wouldn't see.

 

I watched him pay $1,200 for a crown on a tooth he never ate his way through.

 

$700 for a night guard that protected his teeth and did nothing for his head.

 

A neurologist who ran the MRI and said the brain was fine.

 

A printout on sleep hygiene and the words "try to manage your stress."

 

The cause was sitting in his mouth the whole time. Nobody was paid to look.

 

If you have lived even one of those Wednesdays, finish this page before it's gone.

IT STARTED ON A WEDNESDAY I'LL NEVER FORGET

It was 7:31 PM on a Wednesday in March. I stopped by Daniel's house to drop off a drill.

 

I found him on the basement floor. Lights off. Shoes still on. A wet washcloth folded over his right eye.

 

My sister stood in the doorway with a plate of rigatoni going cold in her hand.

 

He didn't get up. He just lifted one finger to say he knew I was there.

 

"It's one of the real ones," he said into the floor. "Don't turn the light on."

 

His daughter was upstairs. 11 years old. She didn't even come down. She'd stopped asking.

 

"The meeting ran till 2," he said. "Neck went first. Then it waited until I sat down on the couch to untie my shoes. It always waits."

 

I'm a specialist. I have letters after my name. And I stood in my sister's basement with nothing.

 

"5 years, Wade," he said. "4 doctors. A drawer full of pills I hide behind a stapler. And nobody can tell me why my own head hates me."

 

He'd been to the neurologist. He'd had the MRI. He'd been handed the stress printout.

 

He had a $700 night guard in a case on the bathroom counter that did nothing.

 

And he had a chipped front tooth he told everyone he cracked on an olive pit.

So I did what 31 years of training told me to do. I ran him through the whole playbook myself:

 

  • Sumatriptan, $40 a pill. His plan made him fail 2 cheaper drugs first. It dulled the worst attacks and gave him a rebound headache the next afternoon.
  • Excedrin, 12 then 18 a month. My sister did the math out loud at the kitchen table. He was one bottle away from a rebound cycle that never ends.
  • A $700 NTI night guard, worn 8 months. His teeth were protected. The headaches didn't move. Not one bit.
  • A $1,200 crown on the lower left 6. It cracked again inside a year, because nobody fixed what was cracking it.

 

Nothing worked.

 

The other doctors weren't any better:

 

The neurologist ran an MRI and said the brain was fine.

 

The GP wrote "anxiety" in the chart and refilled the triptans.

 

A pain clinic quoted $800 to $1,400 a session for masseter Botox, every few months, for life.

 

Then a dental hygienist doing a routine cleaning looked at his back molars, flat as pennies, and said the thing none of us had: "A lot of men clench and never know it."

 

Something snapped.

 

I wasn't going to watch him eat dinner standing at the counter so his kid wouldn't see his face.

 

I wasn't going to let an industry keep him on $40 pills while it billed him $1,200 for the damage.

 

I wasn't going to accept "manage your stress" as an answer for a grown man grinding his jaw apart in his sleep.

 

I was going to figure this out.

 

And what I found made me want to mail my diploma back.

THE 9-MINUTE DISCOVERY THAT 5 YEARS OF DOCTORS MISSED

For the next 71 days I barely slept. I read 1,419 studies. I called 38 researchers across 9 countries. I spent $14,200 of my own savings on journal access and trial data the public never sees.

 

I flew to pain conferences in Helsinki, Kyoto and Boston and cornered people I'd known for decades.

 

And what I found made me want to mail my diploma back to the school that gave it to me.

 

The migraine business is built on a deliberate lie.

 

An $11 billion lie that keeps you grinding, hiding pills, and paying for crowns on teeth you never ate your way through.

 

Here's what they don't want you to know:

 

For a huge share of men, the headache was never the disease. It was the smoke.

 

The fire is the jaw. The clenching nobody told you you were doing.

 

The American Board of Orofacial Pain knows this. The Minnesota Head & Neck Pain Clinic knows it. The trigeminal-nerve researchers know it.

 

A 2024 review in the British Dental Journal found that 25% of headache patients have undiagnosed jaw disorder driving the pain.

 

But they'll never tell you.

 

Because the real cause is so cheap to address it would gut a refill business overnight.

 

That is exactly why pills and night guards never end it.

 

You don't need a stronger drug. You need steady pressure on one nerve point that calms the whole jaw-to-head loop.

THE REAL CAUSE OF YOUR HEADACHES (THAT THEY'RE HIDING)

Let me explain it the way I finally explained it to Daniel, in plain words:

 

Your jaw and your head are wired to the same alarm.

 

When you clench, day or night, you fire a nerve that runs from your jaw straight up behind your eye and down your neck. The muscle never gets the signal to stand down. So it keeps screaming, and your head keeps answering.

 

There's an old fix for that alarm, and it's not a drug. It's a spot in the web of your hand, the hollow between your thumb and first finger. My grandmother's acupuncturist pressed it for headaches 40 years ago.

 

That spot is the LI4 point. Press it and you quiet the same trigeminal pathway the clenching keeps setting off.

 

In a 2026 trial of 120 patients in JAMA Network Open, pressing that exact point beat a fake version on monthly headache days.

 

But here's why your thumb never fixed it: the muscle gives out in about 4 minutes, your hand cramps, and the second you let go the alarm starts again.

 

You let go to type the report.

 

You let go to drive to work.

 

You let go to fall asleep, which is exactly when the worst of the clenching happens.

 

It was never that the point doesn't work. It's that no human hand can hold it long enough to matter.

 

Here's what the science now says:

 

1. The pressure has to be constant.

An attack you interrupt for 4 minutes comes back. An alarm held quiet for hours stops re-arming.

 

2. It has to work while you sleep.

Most clenching happens at night, when your hand is useless and your guard only saves your teeth.

 

3. It has to need nothing from you.

No batteries, no appointments, no remembering. The men who get better are the ones who never have to think about it.

And here's the part that makes me genuinely angry.

 

A 2022 review in the Journal of Orofacial Pain & Headache pooled 18 trials and found that sustained acupressure on the LI4 point cut headache frequency and intensity as much as the standard daily preventive, with none of the side effects.

 

That means: the answer was never a stronger pill. It was holding one point that no hand can hold.

 

They've known this for years.

 

And they kept writing prescriptions anyway.

 

This is the "Triptan-First Playbook":

 

Headache → a $40 pill → it fades → it rebounds → a stronger pill → a $1,200 crown for the damage → a $5,000-a-year Botox plan → repeat forever.

 

It's genius, really.

 

If you're a sociopath.

THE FIX THAT WAS HIDING ON HIS OWN HAND

Remember Daniel on the basement floor, telling his own head it hated him?

 

9 weeks later he ran a Saturday from 7 AM to a 9 PM bedtime story without lying down once.

 

He coached his daughter's game, fixed a fence, sat through a loud restaurant, untied his shoes on that same couch at 7:30. The headache didn't come.

 

He walked into an empty conference room and sat down because he was so confused.

 

No $40 pills. No rebound. No $700 guard. No Botox plan. Just one small thing on his right hand he forgot he was even wearing.

 

Something so simple I was embarrassed I hadn't handed it to him 5 years ago.

 

Because to actually stop the alarm, not just mute it for 4 minutes, you need ONE thing:

 

Steady pressure on the LI4 point, all day and all night, with nothing for you to hold or remember.

 

Hold that point and the clenched-jaw nerve finally stands down, so the headache stops being re-armed every hour.

 

A thumb gives out in 4 minutes. A pill wears off. A night guard saves teeth and ignores the nerve.

 

So the answer was never another prescription. It was a way to keep that one point pressed without a single ounce of effort.

 

You need something built to:

  • Press exactly on LI4, not near it
  • Stay on 24 hours a day, through work and sleep
  • Need zero charging, zero appointments
  • Be quiet enough that the men on your team never notice
THE RESULTS THAT HAVE NEUROLOGISTS QUIETLY ORDERING ONE FOR THEMSELVES

After Daniel, word moved through my old network fast.

 

A colleague's patient, a 47-year-old contractor, 14 years of headaches, 9 treatments tried, knocked on my door.

 

"Wade, my neurologist literally said we'd run out of options. I'm grinding through a mouthguard a year."

 

He'd spent more than $40,000 chasing it. Crowns, scans, a sleep study, 2 kinds of Botox.

 

I gave him the same simple thing I gave Daniel.

 

21 days later his attacks dropped from 12 a month to 2.

 

From 12 to 2. On nothing but a ring.

 

"I keep waiting for it to wear off," his message said. "It hasn't."

 

Then the people I'd trained started quietly asking what I was recommending.

 

A 39-year-old engineer who clenched through every code review, down to one headache a month...

 

A truck driver who used to chew sumatriptan in the cab, off it by week 6...

 

A teacher who'd stopped coaching, back on the field that spring...

 

A father of 2 who texted me a photo of an unopened refill notification...

 

Every. Single. One. Got. Better.

 

Not "I think it's a little better."

 

Not "the placebo's nice while it lasts."

 

Actually, measurably, on-the-calendar fewer attacks better.

WHEN YOU THREATEN $11 BILLION, THEY COME FOR YOU

Dr. Alan Foss, head of a headache program I'd respected for 20 years, pulled me aside at a pain conference in Boston.

 

"Wade, you need to stop. You're scaring the wrong people. The reps are asking about you. Walk it back while you still can."

 

I told him to go to hell.

 

Then came the cease and desist letters.

 

3 law firms. All representing "concerned parties" who would not put their names on paper.

 

Funny how not one of them challenged the actual results.

 

The final straw?

 

A supplier I'd worked with for years suddenly couldn't fill my order.

 

"It's not personal, Wade. We were asked to make it difficult."

 

I later found out a chain of clinics (I won't name them for legal reasons) had made calls.

 

They wanted me gone because I'd found something that made an $11 billion refill business obsolete.

 

A fix that:

  • Costs them nothing (no refill, no appointment)
  • Needs no prescription (no gatekeeper to bill)
  • Never wears off (no monthly repeat)
  • Fits in a coat pocket (no clinic required)

 

But here's what they didn't count on.

 

I brought in engineers who'd built medical wearables for teams out of Stanford and MIT.

 

I partnered with an acupuncture researcher who'd mapped the LI4 point for 30 years.

 

We ran it past 30,000+ real users over more than a year.

 

And we'd turned a pressed thumb into something far better than a thumb.

THE RING THAT'S TERRIFYING THE PILL COMPANIES

It's called the Vitality Ring.

 

It isn't a mood ring or a fidget toy with a wellness label.

 

It isn't a magnet bracelet off a mall kiosk.

 

It's a precision band that holds the LI4 point the way no thumb ever could, around the clock, while you forget it's there.

 

Here's what makes it different:

 

4-MAGNET LI4 CONTACT. Worn on your right index finger, it sits dead on the point the acupuncturists press, with 4 internal magnets holding steady contact no hand can match.

 

WORKS AROUND THE CLOCK. It holds the point through your 2 PM meeting and through the 3 AM clenching a night guard can't reach.

 

NOTHING TO CHARGE OR REMEMBER. No batteries, no app, no appointment. You put it on once and stop thinking about it.

 

316L SURGICAL STEEL. Shower in it, wash your hands in it, sleep in it. It's built to never come off.

 

NOBODY KNOWS YOU'RE WEARING IT. It reads as a plain band, so the men on your team see a ring, not a headache.

Here's what happens once you put it on:

 

The first hour:

You won't feel a jolt or a buzz. Just steady contact on the web of your hand, the kind you forget about by lunch.

 

The first night:

You still clench in your sleep. But the nerve that turns it into a 5 AM headache is being held quiet, so you wake up without the punched-in-the-face feeling.

 

The first 2 weeks:

The Wednesday spasm shows up smaller. The 7:30 couch headache shows up later, or not at all. You stop reaching for the drawer behind the stapler.

 

After a month of wearing it:

 

Will you still grind at night? Probably. But it stops becoming a headache.

 

Will you remember to use it? There's nothing to remember. It's already on.

 

Will anyone notice? They'll see a plain ring and nothing else.

 

Will you get your evenings back? You'll be at the table, not on the basement floor.

THE NUMBERS THE PILL REPS DON'T WANT IN YOUR INBOX

In the last 14 months, more than 30,000 headache and clenching sufferers have worn the Vitality Ring.

 

The results:

 

✓ 95.2% reported fewer attacks within 3 weeks

 

✓ 71% cut or stopped their headache medication within 60 days

 

✓ Average drop from 11 attack days a month to 3

 

✓ "Morning jaw soreness" scores down 68%

 

✓ Days lost to headache down 280%

 

But here's the number that matters most:

 

Our return rate: 0.9%

 

That's 9 men in 1,000 who sent it back. The other 991 kept it on.

 

Read what real users with verified purchases are saying:

Marcus T., 44, Project Manager, Columbus, OH

 

"5 years of 'cervicogenic headaches.' MRI clean, neurologist shrugged, $700 night guard did nothing. A hygienist saw my flat molars and said I was clenching. I'd never even heard the word. Started the ring on the index finger like the page said. Week 3 I sat through a Wednesday ops meeting and realized at 8 PM my neck never seized. I went from 11 attack days a month to 2. I almost didn't buy it because it's $30. That's the part that still makes me mad."

Ray K., 67, Retired, Mesa, AZ

 

"I'd had these since my 40s. Quit coaching my grandson's team because I never knew when my jaw would lock and the headache would land. My dentist wanted $1,400 a session for Botox in my jaw, forever. At 67 I wasn't signing up for that. My son ordered me the ring. 2 months in I was back on the bleachers for a full doubleheader. Front row. Nothing in my pocket but my keys."

Dev S., 38, Long-Haul Driver, Fresno, CA

 

"Headaches behind the wheel are dangerous. I was chewing $40 sumatriptan in the cab and getting the rebound the next day. Caught myself clenching every time traffic stopped, didn't even know I did it. Ring fixed it in about a week. Not dulled. Gone enough that I stopped carrying the pills. Been 5 months, haven't missed a run. My wife found the unopened refill on my phone and just looked at me."

THE PRICE THAT'S CAUSING REFILL-DESK PANIC

Let me show you what "managing" headaches really costs a man in America (with receipts):

 

The drug-and-clinic route:

  • Specialist visits: $300 x 2 = $600/year
  • Triptans like sumatriptan: $200/month = $2,400/year
  • Excedrin and OTC: $25/month = $300/year
  • Night guard, replaced yearly: $700/year
  • Masseter Botox: $1,200 x 4 = $4,800/year

Annual total: $8,800 (forever)

 

The drug industry LOVES these options.

 

Know why?

 

Recurring revenue.

 

You're not a patient to them. You're an annuity that grinds its own teeth.

 

But here's what really terrifies them...

The Vitality Ring should cost $200.

 

That's what a clinic-grade nerve-stimulation headband like Cefaly runs, and it does less and needs charging.

 

I could have charged that. The engineering and the testing would justify it.

 

But I didn't do this to get rich off men who are already on the floor in the dark.

 

I priced it where I did because I watched Daniel hide $40 pills behind a stapler and I never want another man to do that math.

 

So here's the deal:

 

The regular price is $54.

 

Already less than one month of triptans.

 

Already less than one night guard that does nothing for your head.

 

Already less than a fraction of one Botox session.

 

But that's not what you'll pay today.

THE 45% OFF "MIDDLE FINGER" TO THE MIGRAINE INDUSTRY

Remember those law-firm letters?

 

I found out which clinic chain was behind them.

 

They can't copy a plain ring.

 

They couldn't buy us out, the offer went where I told their lawyers to put it.

 

So now they're trying to bury us in paperwork.

 

My response?

 

For the next 72 hours only, I'm releasing rings at 45% OFF.

 

That's right.

 

$54 → just $29.90

 

You can get the same ring that's helped 30,000+ men sleep through the night, for:

  • Less than ONE month of triptans
  • Less than ONE useless night guard
  • Less than a single Botox co-pay
  • Less than the crown you'll pay for if you keep grinding

 

Why would I practically give these away?

 

Because every ring on a man's hand is a refill that never gets written.

 

Because I watched what 5 years of "manage your stress" did to Daniel.

 

Because $11 billion deserves to feel this.

WHY 72 HOURS, AND WHY SO FEW LEFT

This price comes down in exactly 72 hours.

 

Not a gimmick, and not a fake countdown that resets when you reload.

 

After that the price goes back to $54 per ring.

 

And right now we only have 2,847 rings left at this price.

 

Our supplier makes 400 a week, because each one is set to hit the LI4 point exactly.

 

The last time a men's-health writer mentioned us, we sold out in 11 hours.

 

That's why we pulled it from the big marketplaces and only sell it here.

 

If you're reading this, rings are still available.

 

We're averaging 34 orders an hour as I write this.

 

Do the math.

MY PERSONAL 30-DAY "ZERO RISK" GUARANTEE

Look, I get it.

 

You've been burned before. We all have.

 

The $700 guard, the pills, the gadget that's in a drawer next to a dead Fitbit.

 

So here's my promise, in writing:

 

Wear the ring for 30 full days.

 

Keep it on, day and night, on your right index finger.

 

Mark your attacks on the calendar the way Daniel did.

 

Watch the Wednesday spasm get smaller...

 

Feel the morning soreness ease off...

 

See the drawer behind the stapler stay shut...

 

And if after 30 days you don't have fewer attacks than the month before

 

Send it back for every penny. Including shipping.

 

No doctor's note. No triage nurse. No insurance fight.

 

Just email contact@auvulis.com with the word "refund."

 

We send a prepaid label within 24 hours and refund within 48.

 

Why am I this confident?

 

Because across 30,000+ men, our refund rate is 0.9%.

 

That's 9 men per thousand. The rest don't take it off.

THE DECISION THAT WILL DEFINE YOUR NEXT 10 YEARS

Right now you're standing at a fork in the road.

 

Path 1: Keep Doing What You're Doing

 

Keep paying $40 a pill for a fix that rebounds by the next afternoon.

 

Keep waking at 5 AM feeling like you got punched in the face.

 

Keep eating dinner standing at the counter so your kid doesn't see your face.

 

Keep telling people you cracked that tooth on an olive pit.

 

Keep making your neurologist's boat payments.

 

In 10 years you'll be on the same basement floor, with the same washcloth, and a daughter who's grown up watching you disappear.

 

Path 2: Try Something That Actually Works

 

Put a plain ring on your right index finger tonight.

 

Sit through Wednesday's meeting without digging your thumb under your ear.

 

Untie your shoes on the couch at 7:30 and notice the headache never came.

 

Make pasta with your kid instead of texting your wife from the floor.

 

Get a refill notification and realize you don't need it.

 

I think you know which path leads back to the table.

HERE'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

Step 1: Tap the button that says "CHECK AVAILABILITY NOW."

 

Step 2: Choose your package:

  • 1 RING - $29.90. Enough to feel the difference your first week.
  • MOST POPULAR: BUY 2 GET 1 FREE - $49.80. Most men come back for a second anyway, for a brother or a dad who's been grinding just as long. This saves you the second order.

Every order ships free in the US and includes free 1-year coverage.

 

Step 3: Your ring ships free and arrives in a few days.

 

Step 4: Put it on your right index finger and leave it there.

 

Step 5: Wear it TONIGHT, through dinner and through sleep.

 

Step 6: Email your story to contact@auvulis.com when the drawer stays shut.

 

And don't close this page thinking "maybe later."

 

There is no later when your jaw is locked behind your face.

 

"Later" is another Wednesday on the floor.

 

"Later" is another $1,200 crown.

 

"Later" is your daughter learning not to ask.

 

Your head has held you back long enough.

 

The people at your table have waited long enough.

 

The fix is one click away.

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To your last night on the basement floor,

 

Dr. Wade Brenner, DDS, DABOP

 

Orofacial Pain & Headache Specialist. Creator of the Vitality Ring protocol. Enemy #1 of the $11 Billion Migraine Industry.

 

P.S. Daniel just texted me a photo from his daughter's recital. He was there. Front row. 2 hours on a folding chair, no thumb under his ear, no leaving early. That could be you in 3 weeks. But only if you act in the next 72 hours.

 

P.P.S. I'm watching the order count tick down as I write this. We're under 2,847 rings and the men's-health writers are circling again. When this batch is gone the price goes back to $54.

 

P.P.P.S. To every neurologist about to email me: I have 30,000+ men, a JAMA trial, and a stack of unopened refill notifications. Send your data. I'll wait.

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Greg Halloran
19 · 38 min
Has anyone actually tried this for the clenching kind of headaches? Mine come from my jaw, 5 years now, every doctor missed it.
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Tom Reyes
27 · 51 min
I did. Skeptical as hell, it's a $30 ring. 3 weeks in I sat through a full Wednesday meeting and my neck never seized. Wore it to bed, stopped waking up feeling punched in the face. I'm a little angry nobody told me about my jaw years ago.
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Marcus Webb
8 · 1 h
Anyone here been burning through triptans for years? Did this actually let you cut back? I'm at $40 a pill and my plan made me fail 2 others first.
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David Okafor
14 · 1 h
9 years on Excedrin and sumatriptan, scared of the rebound. About 5 weeks on the ring and I've cut way back, talked to my doctor first. Honestly wish I'd found it before the $1,200 crown.
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Frank DiMaggio
22 · 2 h
I've spent $30,000+ over the years. Neurologists, MRIs, a $700 night guard, a crown, almost did the Botox. This ring was $30. I'm angry nobody told me about something this simple sooner.
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Karen Brulé
31 · 2 h
My husband has clenched and had headaches for 8 years. Hid pills in his desk, ate dinner standing up. I ordered this not expecting much. Last week he made pasta with our daughter and stayed at the table the whole night. I almost cried.
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Ramon Cruz
6 · 3 h
My brother sent me the article about Dr. Brenner. Thought it was too good to be true. 4 weeks later I coached a full game without leaving early or hiding in the car after. Still kind of in shock.
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Pete Saunders
4 · 3 h
How long does shipping take?
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Dale Whitcomb
7 · 4 h
Got mine in 4 days. Worth every day of waiting.
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Anthony Russo
11 · 5 h
Wife heard me grinding at night for years. A hygienist is the one who finally said I clench, not one doctor. Ring's been on 6 weeks. She says the grinding's quieter and I haven't had the morning headache once.
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Brian Tasker
5 · 6 h
Does it matter which hand? Mine says right index finger but I'm left-handed.
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Núria Vidal
9 · 7 h
Right index, same as the page says, that's where the LI4 point is. My dad's worn it on the right for 2 months and swears by it.
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Hassan Mehta
16 · 8 h
Got a refill notification last week and just stared at it. Hadn't needed the pills in a month and didn't even notice. That's when it hit me.
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Joel Friedman
3 · 9 h
Just ordered one. Can't keep paying $40 a pill for something that wears off by lunch. If it does half of what you guys say I'm good.
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